Federica Anichini

Federica Anichini, Florentine by birth, has obtained a PhD in Medieval Italian Studies at New York University, in 2002. In 2009 she has published a monograph on the poetry of Guido Cavalcanti (1250?-1300), Voices of the Body. Liminal Grammar in Guido Cavalcanti ‘Rime’, about the employment of sources from natural philosophy, medicine in particular, in Cavalcanti’s work. Her publications include the essays: “Empty Womb and Full Bellies in Decameron 9.3,” in The Decameron: Ninth Day in Perspective. Volume Nine of the Lectura Boccaccii, (Toronto: Toronto University Press, forthcoming); In Dialogue with the Imageless Vision: Constructing Language in Paradiso III, in Dante and Heterodoxy (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014); Inferno IX: Passing within City Walls and beneath the ‘velame de li versi strani’, (Mediaevalia 33 (2012) ). Her current research centers on the relationship between the urban environment and creativity, specifically on the relation of medieval Florence to its vernacular poetic tradition by focusing on one specific urban morphological feature, the city walls, meant not as a defensive device but as permeable margins.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) New York University (1995 — 2002)

Companies

• Teacher of History and Italian lit Istituto Tecnico Agrario Firenze (2020)
• Professor New York University (2019)
• Academic Quality Affairs Committee Member Istituto Lorenzo de'​ Medici (2019 — 2020)
• Upper School Coordinator-Teacher La Scuola d'Italia Gugliemo Marconi (2015 — 2016)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Fordham University (2014 — 2015)